Avaya C460 manual Transceiver, Trap, Tree View, Unicast, Virtual Connection, Virtual Path

Glossary

Transceiver

A device that both transmits and receives analog or digital signals. Usually used to describe the LAN component that applies signals onto the network wire and detects signals passing through the wire.

Trap

Message sent by an SNMP agent to an NMS, console, or terminal to indicate the occurrence of a significant event, such as a specifically defined condition or a threshold that was reached. Similar to an alarm.

Tree View

A resizeable window containing a hierarchical representation of the modules and ports of the device.

UDP

User Datagram Protocol. Connectionless transport layer protocol in the TCP/IP protocol stack. UDP is a simple protocol that exchanges datagrams without acknowledgments or guaranteed delivery, requiring that error processing and retransmission be handled by other protocols.

Unicast

A single packet sent to a single network destination.

Virtual Connection

Aconnection established between end-users (source and destination), where packets are forwarded along the same path and bandwidth is not permanently allocated until it is used.

Virtual Path

A group of virtual channels that can support multiple virtual circuits.

VSA

Vendor-Specific Attribute. RADIUS supports attributes of which one, the VSA, supports vendor-specific attributes. This allows vendors to create custom RADIUS attributes.

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